Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 176
The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible.
Who acts: tongues · What happens: hang out, bay, be
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tongues | det |
| 2 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hanging | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pursuers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pursuers | det |
| 5 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tongues | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanging | aux |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hanging | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 baying | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baying | det |
| 11 | baying | bay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hanging | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 baying | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 horrible | cop |
| 15 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 baying | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang out | past · progressive | the tongues of the pursuers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bay | gerund | the tongues of the pursuers not said here | of tongues = tongue | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | horrible property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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